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Humor, technology and tips for caring for granny

Profiles in Fiftyshifting: A Very Special Artist

Alabama artist Nancy Raia makes the world a better place, one ArtPartner at a timeLandscape by Nancy Raia

If You Have to Tighten the Pursestrings This Fall, You Can Look Great Doing So...

Low-budget, high fashion advice from a twentysomething to you!

Read before shopping

A fall fashion strategy for the midlife woman.

Book excerpt: First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria

 

Eve Brown-Waite wanted to change the world. It turned out the other way around.

Making time for a midlife sabbatical

Changing roles in midlife sometimes require re-assessment and a time-out. Life coach Ellen Besso explains.

No more emergencies

After years of caring for (and losing) her parents, author and actress Katherine Mayfield finds peace and a different outlook on midlife.

Just what the world needs

 

What's your story? How will you tell it?

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Madeleine Blais talks about the art and craft of writing memoir.

Giving grief its due

 

In the third essay of Helene Powers' series, After Adam, a widow comes to terms with grief that just won't quit.

When the doctor's half your age

       

They're young(er), they're licensed, they call you ma'am. So what do you call them?

Facebook 101: How to get started--and why you may not want to (updated!)

 

Midlife women are the fastest-growing group of new Facebook users. Daniella the friendly Millennial explains the basics of friending, finding people and protecting your privacy. (Tip: if you really value your privacy, you'll avoid Facebook altogether.)

What we choose to inherit--or not--from our moms

Another bite from the middle of the mother-daughter-mother sandwich.

Tough gals wear bifocals (updated!)

Nancy Drew remains forever young, but these tough gal detectives feel our aches and pains. Commonweeder.com author Pat Leuchtman introduces us to five of her fictional favorites.